WASHINGTON — For the first time, people across the U.S. can log on to a government website and order free, at-home COVID-19 tests. But the White House push may do little to ease the omicron
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Colorado surpasses 1 million COVID-19 cases
Colorado surpassed 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, but the more pressing concern was that the number of people hospitalized with the virus reached levels last seen in early December, when the wave
Read moreColorado allocates $1.8 million to increase access to drug that can reverse opioid overdoses
As the number of drug overdoses involving opioids in Colorado increases, the state is allocating $1.8 million in funding for local agencies working with high-risk individuals to get naloxone — a medication that can reverse
Read moreCOVID testing in Colorado still available, but delays possible
If you want to get tested for the new coronavirus, it’s a good idea to schedule an appointment in advance and consider having a backup plan, the head of the state’s COVID-19 response said Thursday.
Read moreU.S. children hospitalized with COVID in record numbers
SEATTLE — The omicron-fueled surge that is sending COVID-19 cases rocketing in the U.S. is putting children in the hospital in record numbers, and experts lament that most of the youngsters are not vaccinated. “It’s
Read moreHousing navigators scramble as Greeley shelter closes
If you think apartment-hunting is tough in Colorado, try doing it with only a few hundred dollars of income each month and the knowledge that if you don’t succeed, you’ll be starting 2022 on the
Read moreDenver extends mask-or-vaccinate mandate through February
Denver’s mask mandate, which was scheduled to expire on Monday, will be extended through Feb. 3. New COVID-19 cases are rising rapidly, with about twice as many reported in Denver in the week ending Friday
Read morePfizer pill becomes 1st U.S.-authorized home COVID treatment – The Denver Post
WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus. The
Read moreColorado COVID hospitalizations drop, but omicron taking root
New COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations continued to drop in Colorado over the last week, a potential silver lining as the virus’s fast-spreading omicron variant marches across the country. The new variant of the coronavirus so
Read moreEXPLAINER: COVID-19 boosters key to fight omicron, lot still to learn
The new omicron variant took only a few weeks to live up to dire predictions about how hugely contagious it is but scientists don’t yet know if it causes more severe disease even as the
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